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Definition: Spooky |
SpookyAdjective1. Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu". 2. Unpredictably excitable (especially of horses). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Spooky is an electronica duo consisting of Duncan Forbes and Charlie May. They debuted with Gargantuan after signing to Guerilla Records. The album was critically acclaimed, as was the follow-up, Found Sound (1996). This was followed by several popular singles, released on Spooky's own Generic Records and toured across Europe. Their latest effort is a collaboration with DJ Sasha, Xpander.
There is an influential record producer named 'DJ Spooky\'.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Spooky."
Synonyms: SpookySynonyms: eerie (adj), eery (adj), nervous (adj), skittish (adj). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | My employer would like you to solve a mystery on Spooky Island (Scooby-Doo; writing credit: William Hanna; Joseph Barbera) It's so spooky, my hair's on end (The Talented Mr. Ripley; writing credit: Anthony Minghella) Cuz you're one spooky motherf cker sometimes (The Return of the Living Dead; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Rudy Ricci) Glory, we drop a piano on her. I mean, it always works for that spooky cartoon character when he beats that nice hunter with the speech impediment (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Yeah, it got a little spooky. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Spooky Swabs (1957) One Spooky Night (1955) Spooky Wooky (1950) One Spooky Night (1924) Alice's Spooky Adventure (1924) | |
Song Titles | Spooky (performing artist: The Classics IV) | |
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| "Nico & the skull" by Louise Ingram Commentary: "This was supposed to be a spooky Halloween shoot. Unfortunately she's way to cute to scare anyone!." | "Full moon II" by Wendy Cain Commentary: "Another view of the full moon thro spooky trees." |
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 | Dracula; haunted; scary; nightmarish; spooky; ungodly. | | Horror movie; bloodcurdling; chilling; creepy; hair-raising; hairy; horrendous; horrifying; spine-chilling; spooky; terrifying; unnerving. |
| Spooky; chilling, creepy, eerie, ghostly, mysterious, ominous, scary, spine-chilling, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, weird; fright. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Spooky" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 82.44% of the time. "Spooky" is used about 131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 82.44% | 108 | 31,306 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.56% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Total | 100.00% | 131 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
spooky | 763 | girl spooky | 10 |
spooky tooth | 39 | background spooky | 9 |
dj spooky | 38 | spooky font | 9 |
picture spooky | 38 | horoscope spooky | 9 |
spooky story | 36 | img spooky tool | 8 |
spooky sound | 32 | spooky brook | 8 |
marilyn manson and the spooky kid | 29 | spooky stuff | 7 |
spooky costume | 23 | the spooky tree | 7 |
spooky slot | 20 | island spooky | 7 |
house spooky | 19 | effects sound spooky | 7 |
lyrics spooky | 17 | spooky town | 7 |
spooky castle | 16 | spooky the ghost | 7 |
spooky boutique | 16 | spooky game | 6 |
kid spooky | 15 | spooky things | 6 |
band dance spooky | 13 | i spy spooky mansion | 6 |
spooky world | 13 | horse spooky | 6 |
lemax spooky town | 10 | spooky squeak toy | 6 |
pic spooky | 10 | song spooky | 6 |
spooky brook golf course | 10 | place spooky | 6 |
music spooky | 10 | photo spooky | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "spooky"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | drithërues (thrilling). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجفل, عصبي (apprehensive, edgy, fidgety, fretful, jitterbug, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neural, neuralgic, on edge, pithy, restless, testy, up the wall, uptight), شبحي (ghastly, ghostly, spectral, spiritual). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обитаван от призраци, неспокоен (anxious, apprehensive, broken, nervous, nervy, raucous, restive, restless, sleepless, uneasy, unrestful, unsound, worried, yeasty), нервен (edgy, fidgety, jerky, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neural, neurotic, on edge, ratty, restless, snuffy, windy), призрачен (dreamy, ghostly, phantasmal, shadowy, spectral, unearthly, unsubstantial, visionary), плашлив (fearful, flighty, nervy, shy, skittish, timid, timorous, wild). (various references) | |
Czech | strašidelný (creepy, frightening, ghostly, haunted, haunting, macabre, scary, spectral, unearthly), zlovìstný (baleful, black, fateful, inauspicious, ominous, portentous, sinister, uncanny, unlucky). (various references) | |
French | qui fait froid dans le dos, qui donne le frisson, qui donne la chair de poule. (various references) | |
German | geisterhaft (disembodied, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spookily, supernatural, unearthly). (various references) | |
Greek | σπούκι, στοιχειωμένοσ (haunted). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפחיד (forbidding, frightening, frightful, scary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kísérteties (eerie, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, lurid, macabre, spectral, spookish, withered), kísértetjárta (haunted), kísértet-. (various references) | |
Indonesian | sangar (bringing misfortune, ill-fated). (various references) | |
Italian | sinistro (grim, left, sinister, unearthly). (various references) | |
Manx | scaanagh (crannied, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, mirrorlike, representative, spectral, specular). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ookyspay.(various references) | |
Russian | страшный (blood-curding, dire, direful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grisly, hair raising, hair-raising, hairy, hideous, horrible, parlous, terrible, tremendous), ужасный (appalling, atrocious, awful, blood-curding, chilling, chronic, damnable, damned, desperate, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruelling, gruesome, hair raising, hair-raising, hairy, heinous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, macabre, perishing, terrible, tragic, unearthy), жуткий (eerie, eery, eldritch, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, scary, terrible, terrifying, uncanny), призрачный (ghostly, illusive, phantasmal, phantom, shadowy, spectral, visionary), посещаемый привидениями. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sablastan (eery, ghostly, phantasmal). (various references) | |
Spanish | misterioso (dark, eerie, eery, eldritch, inscrutable, intriguing, lurid, mysterious, occult, odd, oracular, puzzling, queer, shrouded in mystery, subtil, subtile, subtle, uncanny, weird), fantasmal (ghostly, phantasmal), espectral (spectral), escalofriante (creepy, spine-chilling). (various references) | |
Swedish | spöklik (eerie, eery, gaunt, ghastly, ghostlike, ghostly, lurid, spectral, uncanny), hemsökt av spöken. (various references) | |
Turkish | tekin olmayan (haunted, sinister, spookish, uncanny), hayalet gibi (ghostlike, ghostly, spectral, spookish). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відвідуваний привидами, примарний (apparitional, dreamlike, dreamy, elfish, elvish, ghastly, ghostly, illusive, illusory, phantasmal, spectral, visional). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có ma quỷ; như ma quỷ (spookish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Spooky" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pooki, Pookie, pooky, Sookey, sooky, speok, spoak, spokey, spoky, spoock, spoofy, spookie, spooty, spucky, stooky, swook. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spooky" (pronounced spuw"kē) |
| 3 | -uw" k ē | kooky. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "k-o-o-p-s-y" | |
-1 letter: spook. | |
-2 letters: kops, oops, poky, posy, sook, yoks. | |
-3 letters: kop, kos, ops, sky, sop, soy, spy, yok. | |
-4 letters: op, os, oy, so, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "k-o-o-p-s-y" | |
+2 letters: spookery, spookily. | |
+3 letters: copybooks, playbooks. | |
+4 letters: hokypokies, monkeypods, poppycocks. | |
+5 letters: hokeypokeys, outspokenly, prokaryotes. | |
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